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Kevin Kennedy is an English actor, writer, producer, singer and guitarist, best known for playing the bottle-lensed Curly Watts in ITV's long running soap opera, Coronation Street between 1983 and 2003.

Early life

Kennedy was born in Manchester. He attended St Paul's RC secondary High School.

After that, he then went on to study drama at Manchester Polytechnic now Manchester Metropolitan University.

Career

Kennedy was in the band 'Paris Valentinos' which also contained Johnny Marr and Andy Rourke who later played in The Smiths.

Kennedy played the role of Curly Watts between 1983 and 2003.

After a short break from acting while recovering from alcohol addiction,^[1] in May 2000 Kennedy released a song and album named Bulldog Nation with his band The Bunch of Thieves under the RCA label. The single peaked at number 70 in the UK Singles chart.

Kennedy returned to Coronation Street a few months later before leaving finally in September 2003. As of March 2010, there is speculation that Kennedy is to make a return to Coronation Street in the near future.

Kennedy was the writer and producer of the film, Spanish Capers, that was released in 2005.

In an interview in July 2007, Kennedy said with the right storyline, he would consider a return to Coronation Street.^[2]

Also in 2009, he appeared in a Daz (detergent) 'Cleaner Close' Advert.

Kennedy is currently playing the part of ageing hippy 'Pop' in the touring production of Ben Elton's We Will Rock You.^[3].

Personal life

Kennedy currently lives with his wife, Clare and daughters Katie-May (born 2004) and Grace (born 2006) and he also has a son, Ryan (born 1987) with his former wife, Dawn.

He is a supporter of Manchester City F.C.

TV credits

• Dear Ladies (1983)
• Coronation Street (1983-2003)
• Comic Relief (1988)
• On The Waterfront (1989)
• The Royal Variety Performance (1989)
• The Mrs. Merton Show (1995)
• The South Bank Show (1995)
• Anne Kirkbride (1998)
• This Is Your Life (1998)
• Football Crazy (1999)
• Friday Night's All Wright (2000)
• Live Talk (2000)
• Top Ten (2000)
• Loose Women (2000-2007)
• Amanda Barrie (2001)
• Stars in Their Lives (2001)
• It Shouldn't Happen to a... Soapstar (2002)
• V Graham Norton (2002)
• Stars in Their Eyes (2002-2003)
• Boys v. Girls (2003)
• Russian Roulette (2003)
• Weddings (2003)
• Today with Des and Mel (2003)
• Astounding Celebrities (2003)
• Richard & Judy (2003-2004)
• GMTV (2004)
• This Morning (2004)
• TV's 50 Greatest Stars (2006)
• Doctors (2006)
• You Can't Fire Me, I'm Famous (2007)
• Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway Sunday Drives a
• The Podge and Rodge Show (2008)
• The British Soap Awards 2008 (2008)
• Cleaner Close (Daz advert) (2009)

Albums

• Bulldog Nation (2000)
• Present Kennedy (2002)

Film credits

• Spanish Capers (2005) (Writer and Producer)

References

External links

• Kevin Kennedy at the Internet Movie Database